| Gravitation character | |
| Eiri Yuki | |
|---|---|
| Voice Actor: | Kazuhiko Inoue |
| Other Works of Inoue: | Anthony in Candy Candy, Kakashi Hatake in Naruto, Hatori Souma
in Fruits Basket, Günter von Kleist in Kyo Kara Maou, Teishirou Yamamoto in "Bimishinbo", Mamoru Kusanagi in Blue Seed, Tomomasa in Harukanaru Toki no Naka de Hachiyō Shō, etc. |
| Real Name: | Eiri Uesugi |
| Birthdate: | February 23 |
| Age: | 23 |
| Blood Type: | AB |
| Height: | 6'1" |
| Weight: | 73 kg (163 lbs) |
| Hair Color: | Blonde (manga and anime) |
| Eye Color: | Blue (manga) Gold (anime) |
| Birthplace: | Kyoto |
| Sexual Orientation: | Homosexual(?) |
Eiri Yuki (由貴瑛里 Yuki Eiri) is one of the main characters in the popular shonen-ai anime and manga, Gravitation.
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Basic information
Eiri Uesugi, who also goes by his pen name, Eiri Yuki, is a popular romance novelist who met Shuichi Shindou in the park and mercilessly dismissed his song lyrics. Through coincidence, they kept bumping into each other, and eventually came together romantically. In the series (manga and anime), Eiri and Shuichi struggle with their celebrity status and their mercurial relationship. Eiri's father is a monk, who runs a temple in Kyoto. He has one younger brother, Tatsuha Uesugi, who is a monk-in-training. He also has one elder sister, Mika Uesugi, who is married to Tohma Seguchi. At the beginning of the series, Eiri is engaged to Ayaka Usami. In the Gravitation EX first book, Yuki is temporarily, according to Yuki, blinded. It is unknown whether or not his eyes will heal. He did it to save a small child which is unlike his original character.((He saved the child from being hit by a semi-truck. ))(The same child he saves is Yuki Kitazawa's child that and Yuki kicks the kid in the face for trying to sit in Shuichi's lap earlier in the book then saves him after trying to make him cry)
Personality
He is a young writer, an idol of women for his charisma, typical of a popular person. Despite his award-winning talent for writing love stories, he is not very emotional. He is sarcastic and caustic to everyone around him, including his family. His personality is most likely the result of the Kitazawa incident (see below) because when he was a teenager he had a bright, easygoing personality... much like how Shuichi is now.
Kitazawa Incident
Tohma Seguchi and Eiri Uesugi lived in New York city when Eiri was young. While there, Eiri developed a crush on his tutor, Yuki Kitazawa, who encouraged Eiri's desire to write books. Whether Kitazawa was an alcoholic is unclear, but on one fateful occasion, he was drunk and sixteen-year-old Eiri came to visit him. Kitazawa was expecting Eiri and accepted ten dollars from a pair of thugs in exchange for use of Eiri's body. The two men raped Eiri while Kitazawa watched. Then, Eiri managed to snatch a gun from one of the men and shot his mentor, killing him. It is unclear whether Eiri killed the thugs as well. In the anime, more than one shot can be heard but only the tutor's dead body is shown in any visual sense. In the manga (vol. 4), Eiri tells Shuichi, "I killed them all." What happened next is unclear, partly because Eiri repressed his own memories of the situation for several years. It is clear that Tohma found and comforted a disheveled Eiri, sitting with Kitazawa's corpse.
Due to the situation that occurred, Eiri developed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Trivia
- According to Murakami, Eiri usually sleeps on his stomach.
- He hates celery.
- He is fond of a cat that prowls outside his apartment, even naming it "Nyanko-taro".
- He used to call Mika, "Mikarin".
- His ears are very ticklish.
- Eiri is left-handed.
- His favourite food is strawberry shortcake, chocolate cake and pie.
